April 2019
Beginner
350 pages
11h 9m
English
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Kees Koedijk is a professor of Financial Management at TIAS Business School and Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has won several national and international awards for his research on sustainable development. He has published extensively on finance, responsible investment and pension management. During the last 10 years he has served at several investment committees of asset institutions and acted as consultant to international pension funds. Kees Koedijk is a co-editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Portfolio Management. In 2010, Kees Koedijk published the book Investment Beliefs together with Alfred Slager. Many funds across the globe have since then adopted the framework on investment beliefs that was developed in the book.
During his career, Kees Koedijk has also acted as a serial entrepreneur in financial services. Together with Piet Eichholtz (Maastricht University), he founded the company Global Property Research (GPR) in Amsterdam in 1994, which produces leading indexes for real estate securities worldwide. GPR is now part of Van Lanschot Kempen. In 2004 he co-founded the company, Finance Ideas, with Piet Eichholtz and Thomas Heijdendael. Finance Ideas is a financial advisory firm, which originally specialized in social real estate but increasingly acts as strategic consultant and partner to institutional investors.
Alfred Slager is an economist, trustee, and advisor who has worked ...
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